The Victorian Age of Literature

The Victorian Age lasted from 1837 to 1901. Ironically, Queen Victoria lived from 1837 to 1901. By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution, as this shift was called, had created profound economic and social changes, including a mass migration of workers to industrial towns, where they lived in new urban slums. But the changes arising out of the Industrial Revolution were just one small group of radical changes taking place in mid- and late-nineteenth-century Britain. Among others were the democratization resulting from extension of the franchise; challenges to reli…